jfhis is Fire Prevention Week, October 6-12

—Sponsored Locally by PTA_

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1957, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA

Weather Date

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10 PAGES TODAY NO. 5.

REFLECTIONS By Gordon Greenwood

,cc red department. In I' 1,1 aiaSt week of the Cub 5 ,u,Krh ,t swannanoa I had

name of Bill Wright as

f;:.., scoutmaster. Was I sur- k

when the story I wrote

PT out Tn cold print and Mr.

P hf name wasn’t mentioned. r'-" ujU ever be able to ac-

P'for the strange things that

L„m<n sometimes between senb-

notes and the completed sometimes there is very

II. resemblance f, ,. wricht is doing an excellent

, and should have been included

Ith the others.

How did the mountains around

Lre get their names? Don't

|n0W about all of them but

Lre's the story on Pisgah, ac-

ting to one of the most faith-

ul readers of the News.

In 1790 a Presbyterian church

^as erected at Swannanoa and

Irom the door of the church

ould be seen a beautiful moun-

Bin rising in the distance. The

Oev. George Newton, church

jastor, named the mountain

fpisgah" from the Biblical Pis-

Lah mountain from which Moses

looked into the Promised Land, fnd that it has been since.

In later years some one added Rat. Does any one know

who originated that? —R—

I When a man around town and i preacher went to the lake re-

nth thin didn't intend to do h\ fishing —because it was Sun- fe\ Even though the minister had Ijiew casting rod—he didn’t real- Imean to fish—he just dropped fe hook in to see if the line bu'd reach from the bank to the Iter. |lt would and did. And since a

jjound bass didn’t know that the

jin weren’t fishing, it really ■ssed up the works by swallow- I the hook The minister was lizled as to what to do. But 1 finally came up with the most ■nano answer. Since it would Re been cruel to leave the poor

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in vaccination lecom mended For idustrial Use

|Flue cases at Warren Wilson or college, which at the epi-

n'c s Peak last week reached iotal ol 128 cases, probably are

ie Asiatic flu type, Dr. H. W. Ivenv Buncombe County Health Ice, said this week. Definite fcgnation of the strain of in- lion cannot be made for another

jeral weeks when reports will I available from Raleigh on blood ncimens forwarded from the hnnanoa college. Dr. Stevens pd that he “saw no reason for P' at this time".

[Volunteers from the faculty been caring for the stricken

Bents and fellow staff members |der supervision of the college ®e. i’he latter reported that at

period during the past week Ns necessary to bed patients pur buildings on the campus Iddition to the eight-bed college Fmary She added that the

fber of those falling ill of flu J> during the past week, been Iwly receding day by day, al- |iEh several new cases eon- led to appear daily early this pk

|dustrial plants in this and F areas (,i Buncombe county F been advised by the County ►d ot Health to provide op-

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fy/or Presented |tent's Key Dr Service

A Taylor, inernationa _st ln|' ;*nd former distric P1 Lions 31-A, receivec J onal President’s Ke; J#t*i>'iri,,us service at the reg

of the Lions clul List week.

£' * '■ cn by retiring pres I Stickley of Charlotte

by District Governo '■ Bart of Weaverville

is awarded to ;

ir : the entire Lion: r covering all th< Is anil •!lly foreign countries

k ['r president of th L- F*v..miClll U1 II

,, n. Club, Mr. Tayli

rnr' stickley for tl

^ j presidency at tl Biami two years ag

to the club Judi !e

; ’be “characteristi to VlJ> Warrior” as th

P°drow ‘-ions.

■T'ddingfield, genet taan ,1 rte,j ile calendar campaigi bn, 7\ aPPr°ximately S7E

lot >, ycived, making th ’ years ever.

Booster Club Will Dedicate Shuford Field Chester Sobol New President Of Kiwanis Club

At its last meeting the Black Mountain-Swannanoa Kiwanis club elected officers for 1958 as fol- lows: Chester Sobol, president, and Charles Porter, vice-president. Board of directors, in addition to these two, are Carl Bowness. Dave Harrison, M. E. Head. Harry Hvd- er. William McMurray, Jr.. Will- iam T. Ratchford, Steve Uzzell. John Wiltshire, and E. N. Howell, past (resident.

The program was sponsored by the Asheville club with Clarence N. Gilbert as speaker. Last week being “Constitution Week", his subject was "Our Constitution, the Oldest Written Constitution in the World”.

"Ours,” he said, “is a govern- ment by law and not by men.” He gave examples of how our con- stitution has been attacked and how to date it has withstood all these attacks and still stands as the finest instrument to govern men with proper balance between individual rights and the good of the whole. It is now being put to the test by those who abuse the 5th Amendment and at the same time seek to overthrow our form of government.”

Mr. Gilbert, who evidenced thorough knowledge of the sub- ject. emphasized the importance of all good citizens resludying our constitution in the light of present threats, lest we lose our greatest heritage. His talk was certainly

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Students To Hear Talk liy Princess

Caradja Monday Princess Catherine Caradja of

Rumania will be in Black Mount- ain on Monday, Oct. 7, to speak to the students of both the primary and elementary schools. She will be heard at the primary school at 9:1)0 o’clock and at the elemen- tary school at 9:45.

The princess, who escaped from her native country in 1952 to avoid association with the Communists, has been visiting former Lr. S. servicemen whom she met while

they were held as prisoners of war

following the air raid on oil fields of Rumania in 1943. The purpose of her tour of the United States is to tell the story of Communism and how the Russians took over and ruined her country after the defeat of the Germans.

She will be introduced in Black

Mountain by Jim Brittain of Black

Mountain, one of the airmen cap-

tured when his plane was badly damaged over the target and crash-

ed 20 minutes later. He was lib-

erated Aug. 31, 1944.

Land Owners Unite To Proted Valley Area

Announcement was made by

Hardy Davidson of Swannanoa this

week of the joining of farmers and

acreage owners in a volunteer

organization to protect the nature1

resources of the Swannanoa Val-

ley. It will be known as a con-

servation area

the heartland said.

Starting at

Grovemont the

and will take in

of the valley, he

the west side of

area will extend to

point near the Grassey Branch

tad, taking in the Four Knob and

lost of Watch Knob mountains.

.Iso on the south side of the >ad

tad will be other pockets in Buck

ye Cove and Patton Cove The

lain area will lie between the

lain Asheville-Black Mountain

tad and Kiceville road.

Within the past 25

alley has changed from a raw

re a to a suburban area what

sed to be farm land 18 mile,

long, the Swannanoa river is

educed to about 1 "te u

ome of the game is becoming all

ut extinct. There is stiH ahaM

ore of hunters who are out to J te last rabbit, squirrel and other

ante. Few squirrels are

ept around residences. There is also actual danger from

eing in the woods or tie <

unting season.

While this new °)rKgan‘izva e°over. ot connected with ai y S

rental agency at the present time

“ PtdeeraTlP,J Cen?orcemeant i,"»-■»hdp rotect it.

^ W CA Returns Vo Swannanoa

I he Y.W.C.A. is offering this hill a Ladies Day Out program m Swannanoa. It will be held at the Swannanoa Clubhouse each Wednesday morning from 10:00 until 12:00. The program will con- s*st °f a regular 45 minute period of Trimnastics followed by coffee and a weekly series of hour pro- grams on the home.

1 he Y.W.C.A. will also sponsor an adult dance class each Thurs- day night at the clubhouse. The class will begin at 8:00 p.m. All who are interested please contact th( .Y.W.C.A. in Asheville or come to the various programs.

Taylor Urges Help of Groups For Clubhouse

A hope that local civic clubs will volunteer to furnish materials and labor lor some fall and winter repair jobs needed at the Black Mountain Community clubhouse was advanced by Parks Director Ross Taylor in reporting on activ- ities at. this recreation center and the Black Mountain Golf club.

“We all use the clubhouse. It would be mighty fine to have such help as perhaps the furnishing of •some needed paint and other ma- terials and some labor,” he said. A gift of new screens by the Jay- cees was appreciatively acknow- ledged.

Mr. Taylor reported greens on the course to be ‘‘now and this summer in the best shape they have ever been.” He added that the local golf club has been re-

quested to plant and cai£ for ex-

perimental grass plots here, thus providing data on varieties of grasses most suited to this area in terms of growth and disease re- sistance. The request is from N. C. Department of Agriculture for a federal survey, and results of local experiments will be forward- ed to the U. S. Department of Agronomy. Beltsville, Md., Mr. Taylor said.

The local golf course will, as usual, be open to the public all winter, and the clubhouse already has a heavy calendar of events scheduled, including a number of civic club events and teen-age and other activities.

“'Fall house-keeping clean-up and repairs are underway,” the report said, and additional repairs are scheduled as soon as the work crew finishes several golf course

projects which include building of small bridges where necessary and some work on greens.

Outside benches recently were

repaired and re-painted, and the kitchen of the clubhouse has been re-finished. Mr. Taylor voiced the hope that a new floor may be in- stalled by spring. Recent repairs included removal of fire hazard

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PTA Asks Clubs To Nominate Its Carnival Ruler

Each local civic club and organ- ization is asked to nominate a

candidate to compete in the annual “'King and Queen Contest” spon- sored by the Black Mountain PTA as a feature of its Hallowe’en car-

nival for the benefit of the school’s student recreation needs. Choices are to be made of a king from a

men’s club, and a queen from a

local women’s group.

The contest will open Oct. 15

to run to 9 a.m. on Oct. 31. Each club is asked by Miss Lou Lind-

sey, chairman of the sponsoring committee, to select a nominee for

'•King” or “Queen” from its own

group, and thereafter to campaign in the interest of the election of that nominee to reign over the Hallowen’en School carnival on

Hallowe’en eve’. The clubs are

asked to report thier nominations to Miss Lindsey for publication in the Black Mountain News and then “to work for the election of your candidate by securing votes at one

cent per vote. The one with the

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—Photo by Ed DuPuy Someone must have told a good story or maybe these

members of the Valley Booster club are just happy as they make plans for the dedication of Shuford Field, new athletic facility at Owen High school on Friday evening. The Owen Warhorses will meet the Enka Jets in an important Bun- combe County and Blue Ridge conference game.

The dedication will be conducted between the halves with Richard R. Stone, first president of the Valley Booster club, serving as master of ceremonies. The field was built and equipped by the Booster club.

In the group discussing plans for the event, are, left to right, Grady Luckadoo, director; Fred Ensley, vice president; John Jones, director; Maurice Jones, secretary; Grant Ballard, president; George Penlev, director, and N. C. Shuford, Owen High principal, for whom the field was named.

Oct. 5 Scheduled As New Date For Local Horse Show

Hoping for clear weather to dry the sodden riding ring on the Black Mountain Primary school grounds, sponsors of the season's second Black Mountain Horse show this week set a third date for the show as Saturday, Oct. 5, at 1 p.m. The show has twice been post- poned because of rain. It is under auspices of the Black Mountain PTA, and is to benefit the school lunch fund and other school needs.

The event schedules 14 classes, all of them post entries, and will follow a noon parade for which all riders and drivers may enter

in the line of march from near the Monte Vista hotel. The pa- rade formation is scheduled for 11-30.

The show is a -‘Finer Carolina” project.

With the Sick Burton Osteen is a patient at

Memorial Mission hospital. Ricky Fyffe, son of Mr. and

Mrs. William E. Fyffe, underwent surgent at St. Joseph’s hospital Tuesday morning.

TWEEN-AGERS DANCE Members of the Tween-Age club

will meet Saturday night, Oct. 5, at the Community clubhouse for a dancing party from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Mrs. Woodward Is Named "Woman of Year”

11 I JHflftVS 1. —Photo by Ed DuPuy

w -- ic thP title given Mrs. S. L. Woodward (center) after the Woman of the Yeai counte^ by the Black Mountain Business and Profes- "woman ui counted by the Black Mountain Business ana nuies-

coinmunity’s votes bv lettei w ° an annual feature of “National Business Worn-

sional Women’s club m las her daughter, Miss Josephine Woodward,

en’s Week Mrs. Woodwaid is p ^ thp award was announced.

(left) ^ amf Miss' Li Ilia n° Russell, president, as the award was announced.

Citizens of the community, re-

sponding to the Business and Professional Women’s club to nominate Black Mountain’s “Wom- an of the Year”, last week chose Mrs. S. L. W'oodward of “Bride- wood” to receive the honor “as a business woman in and out of our midst since the spring of 1924.”

Miss Lillian Russell, president of the local club, in announcing the award, reminded that it is to Mrs. Woodward that "many young women owe their life's destiny to her loving care and interest.”

Mr. and Mrs. Woodward and their two children came to Black Mountain in May, 1924. He was

principal of the Montreat school and she was in charge of the girls at that institution. In that capac- ity. she served as housemother, nurse and “mother” to all of the girls. For 10 years, she and her husband were directors of the Montreat Camp for Girls, and “so”, the report of the local contest said, “she was busy the year round moulding the lives of young girls. Even with her home and family duties, she always found time to help some girl with her wardrobe, sometimes to the extent of remak- ing their clothes so that they would be like the other girls”.

The girls felt free at all times to go to her with their problems, anu found her ready at all times to give them the help they needed. After 10 years of service in the camp and school, Mr. and Mrs. Woodward were called into the same kind of service at the Fassi- fern School for Girls in Henderson-

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Two Addresses At Free Will Church

The Swannanoa Free Will Bap- list church will have as speakers Sunday, Oct. 6, George Astley, who will speak at the 11 o'clock ser- vice, and Jerry Bridges at 7:30 p.m. Both of these boys are an-

nounced as young Christians who have been an inspiration to the church for their never-ceasing ef- forts and work in bringing their friends and acquaintances to church. Everyone is cordially in- vited to both services. The young Master Men and the Young Ladies’ Auxiliary of the church are hav- ing a social Saturday night, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. in the fellowship hall. All young people over 14 years old are invited. Miss Ina Smith, Miss Jo Ann Creasman, and Miss Betty Creasman will be in charge.

Will Discuss World Affairs For Owen PTA

Dr. L. Nelson Bell, of Montreat, speaking- on “International Rela- tions”, will address the first fall meeting- of Owen High PTA Thurs- day, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the school. He will be introduced by Ronald E. Finch.

Dr. Bell retired from active practice last year, and at present is executive editor of the inter- national religious journal, “Christ- ianity Today”. In 1957 he con-

tinued his world wide travels, making- four trips to Europe, two to Brazil, one to Africa, one around the world, during- which he visited Formosa. He and Mrs. Bell also visited Japan and Korea. Dr. and Mrs. Bell served for many years in the foreign medical missionary field.

Dr. Bell in 1955 was a delegate to a meeting of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and last year was a delegate to the Inter- national College of Surgeons in Geneva. He is a member of a

number of medical and surgical societies, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His board membership include the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church (US), Moun- tain Retreat association, Southern Presbyterian Journal, and “Today’s Publications”. From 1941 to 1956 he practiced surgery in Asheville and was on the surgical staffs of all Asheville hospitals. In the years between 1916 and 1941 he was chief surgeon at. the largest Presbyterian church in China.

NEW DATE SET FOR SALE A rummage sale, postponed last

Saturday by Circle 1 of State Street Methodist church, will be* held this Saturday, if the weather permits, in the vacant lot between Dr. E. K. Brake’s office and Eckles Real Estate office, Broadway.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Watkins and son, Michael, of Clinton, Tenn., spent the week end with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Watkins.

Friday To Mark Opening of New $25,000 Stadium

Dedication of Shuford Field, new

§25,000 football stadium at Owen High school, will be held between the halves of the Enka-Owen game Friday evening, Grant Ballard, Valley Booster club president, an-

nounced today. The Jets-Warhorse clash will

start at 8:00 o’clock. Master of ceremonies for the

dedication will be Richard B. Stone, first president of the Val- ley Booster club which was formed soon after the Black Mountain and Swannanoa High schools were

consolidated, to promote athletics at the new Owen High school.

Speaker for the occasion will be T. C. Roberson, superintendent of Buncombe County schools. Mr. Ballard will present the stadium for the Valley Booster club and Mr. Shuford will receive it on

behalf of the school. Called one of the finest athletic

plants in this part of the state, Shuford Field has been built by a

small group of club members who have conducted projects of a var-

ied nature to raise funds. Im- provements include lights* seats, sprinkler system, fence, turf, goals, and concession stand.

The turf, which was planted last spring at the close of school, is Bermuda grass and the thick and heavy stand has surprised all those who have visited the field this fall. The Booster club re-

ceived help on this project from R. S. Neskaug and Garry Carson, agriculture teachers at the school, and their “ag” classes.

The sprinkler system has three sprinkler heads which are fed by underground plastic pipe that runs from the boiler room to the center of the neiu and then splits to feed the lines running to each end of the field. With this system

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United Fund Sets $11,450 For Three Local Agencies

Appropriations totalling $11,450 for three direct services main- tained in the Black Mountain area

are contained in the $482,330 goal of the United Fund of Asheville and Buncombe county, set last week as the amount needed for continuance during the coming year of the more than 18 separate social services maintained for county residents. Dr. Arthur F. Bannerman of Warren Wilson col- lege, is president of the United Fund.

Black Mountain and adjacent communities in the county also benefit through other services- such as the Cerebral Palsy, pre- school and Heart clinics conducted in Asheville, and receive profes- sional leadership and administra- tion for local Boy and Girl Scout activities.

The campaign budget allocated to the local Red Cross chapter the sum of $9,012, and an emergency drive allotment of $338; to the Black Mountain Christmas Cheer

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Church Invites All To Mountain View

The public is cordially invited to attend the annual home-coming at the Mountain View Baptist church, North Fork, Sunday, Oct 6.

Sunday school will be held at 10 a.m. and the morning- worship service at 11. A picnic dinner will be served on the church grounds at 12:30. In the afternoon a number of quartets and singers from this vicinity will present a program. Among the singers already sched- uled on the program are: The Sheriff’s quartet, Gospel Light quartet, Melody Makers, and The Pleasant Four. The choirs of the First Baptist church and the Moun- tain orphanage and girls from Owen High school have been in- vited to participate. A good time and a day of fellowship with old friends are promised to all who attend.

Honor Mrs. Kerlee On 91st Birthday

Mrs. H. B. Kerlee will celebrate her ninety-first birthday anni- versary Sunday, Oct. 6, with open house from 2 to 5 p.m. All friends and relatives are extended a cordial invitation to attend.